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What does BILL mean?

Definitions for BILL
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bill, measurenoun

    a statute in draft before it becomes law

    "they held a public hearing on the bill"

  2. bill, account, invoicenoun

    an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered

    "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

  3. bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenbacknoun

    a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

    "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"

  4. billnoun

    the entertainment offered at a public presentation

  5. circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwawaynoun

    an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

    "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"

  6. poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, cardnoun

    a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

    "a poster advertised the coming attractions"

  7. billnoun

    a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)

  8. bill, billhooknoun

    a long-handled saw with a curved blade

    "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"

  9. bill, peak, eyeshade, visor, vizornoun

    a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes

    "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

  10. beak, bill, neb, nib, peckerverb

    horny projecting mouth of a bird

  11. charge, billverb

    demand payment

    "Will I get charged for this service?"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"

  12. billverb

    advertise especially by posters or placards

    "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"

  13. placard, billverb

    publicize or announce by placards

Wiktionary

  1. Billnoun

    A diminutive of the male given name William.

  2. Billnoun

    A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"

  3. Billnoun

    One Hundred Dollars.

  4. Etymology: bille, from bulle, from bulla. Compare bull.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. BILLnoun

    The beak of a fowl.

    Etymology: bile, Sax.

    Their bills were thwarted crossways at the end, and, with these, they would cut an apple in two at one snap. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwal.

    It may be tried, whether birds may not be made to have greater or longer bills, or greater and longer talons. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 757.

    In his bill
    An olive leaf he brings, pacifick sign! Paradise Lost, b. xi.

    No crowing cock does there his wings display,
    Nor with his horny bill provoke the day. John Dryden, Fables.

  2. BILLnoun

    Etymology: bille, Sax. twibille, a two edged axe.

    Standing troops are servants armed, who use the lance and sword, as other servants do the sickle, or the bill, at the command of those who entertain them. William Temple.

    Yea distaff women manage rusty bills;
    Against thy seat both young and old rebel. William Shakespeare, R. II.

  3. BILLnoun

    Etymology: billet, French.

    He does receive
    Particular addition from the bill
    That writes them all alike. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Ordinary expence ought to be limited by a man’s estate, and ordered to the best, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad. Francis Bacon, Essays.

    No new laws can be made, nor old laws abrogated or altered, but by parliament; where bills are prepared, and presented to the two houses. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

    How now, for mitigation of this bill,
    Urg’d by the commons? Doth his majesty
    Incline to it, or no? William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    There will be no way left for me to tell you, that I remember you, and that I love you; but that one, which needs no open warrant, or secret conveyance; which no bills can preclude, or no kings prevent. Francis Atterbury, to Pope.

    Like him that took the doctor’s bill,
    And swallow’d it instead o’ th’ pill. Hudibras, p. i. cant. ii.

    The medicine was prepar’d according to the bill. Roger L'Estrange, fab. 183.

    Let them, but under your superiours, kill,
    When doctors first have sign’d the bloody bill. Dryden.

    And in despair, their empty pit to fill,
    Set up some foreign monster in a bill. Dryden.

    The fourth thing very maturely to be consulted by the jury, is, what influence their finding the bill may have upon the kingdom. Jonathan Swift.

    Most who took in the weekly bills of mortality, made little other use of them, than to look at the foot, how the burials encreased or decreased. John Graunt, Bills of Mortality.

    So liv’d our sires, ere doctors learn’d to kill,
    And multiply’d with theirs the weekly bill. Dryden.

    It may seem somewhat difficult to make out the bills of fare for some of the forementioned suppers. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    The comfortable sentences are our bills of exchange, upon the credit of which we lay our cares down, and receive provisions. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of living holy.

    All that a bill of exchange can do, is to direct to whom money is due, or taken up upon credit, in a foreign country, shall be paid. John Locke.

  4. To Billverb

    To publish by an advertisement: a cant word.

    Etymology: from bill, a writing.

    His masterpiece was a composition that he billed about under the name of a sovereign antidote. Roger L'Estrange.

  5. To Billverb

    To caress, as doves by joining bills; to be fond.

    Etymology: from bill, a beak.

    Doves, they say, will bill, after their pecking, and their murmuring. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

    Still amorous, and fond, and billing,
    Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. Hudibras, p. iii. c. i.

    They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress’d,
    Seven days sits brooding on her floating nest. Dryden.

    He that bears th’ artillery of Jove,
    The strong pounc’d eagle, and the billing dove. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Bill

    Bill.com is a company based in San Jose, California, that provides automated, cloud-based software for financial operations. A white-labeled, end-to-end payments automation platform, Bill.com Connect is offered to financial institutions as part of their single sign-on online business banking ecosystem.

ChatGPT

  1. bill

    A bill refers to a formal statement or proposal of a potential law that is put forward for consideration or discussion in a legislative assembly. It can also refer to an invoice or written statement specifying the amount of money a person owes for goods or services they have received. Additionally, "bill" can also denote the beak of a bird. The exact interpretation of "bill" generally depends on the context in which it is used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Billnoun

    a beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal

  2. Billverb

    to strike; to peck

  3. Billverb

    to join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness

  4. Billnoun

    the bell, or boom, of the bittern

  5. Billnoun

    a cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill

  6. Billnoun

    a weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff

  7. Billnoun

    one who wields a bill; a billman

  8. Billnoun

    a pickax, or mattock

  9. Billnoun

    the extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke

  10. Billverb

    to work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill

  11. Billnoun

    a declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law

  12. Billnoun

    a writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document

  13. Billnoun

    a form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law

  14. Billnoun

    a paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill

  15. Billnoun

    an account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill

  16. Billnoun

    any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc

  17. Billverb

    to advertise by a bill or public notice

  18. Billverb

    to charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods

Wikidata

  1. Bill

    A bill is a proposed law under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an act or a statute.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bill

    bil, n. the beak of a bird, or anything like it, applied even to a sharp promontory, as Portland Bill: the point of the fluke of an anchor—hence Bill′-board, n., used to protect the planking from being injured by the bill when the anchor is weighed.—v.i. to join bills as doves: to caress fondly.—adj. Billed. [A.S. bile, most prob. the same word as the preceding.]

  2. Bill

    bil, n. an account of money: a draft of a proposed law: a written engagement to pay a sum of money at a fixed date: a placard or advertisement: any written statement of particulars: in the criminal law of England, the formal name of a written accusation of serious crime preferred before a grand-jury.—n. Bill′-book, a book used in commerce in which an entry is made of all bills accepted and received.—n.pl. Bill′-brok′ers, persons who, being skilled in the money-market, the state of mercantile and personal credit, and the rates of exchange, engage, either on their own account or that of their employers, in the purchase and sale of foreign and inland bills of exchange and promissory notes: the business of Bill′-discount′ers, or discount-brokers, again, consists in discounting or advancing the amount of bills of exchange and notes which have some time to run before they come due, on the faith of the credit of the parties to the bill.—n. Bill′-cham′ber, a department of the Court of Session in Scotland which deals with summary business—so called because formerly both summonses and diligence or execution were for the most part commenced by a writ called a bill; Bill′-stick′er, one who sticks or posts up bills or placards.—Bill of adventure, a writing by a merchant stating that goods shipped by him, and in his name, are the property of another, whose adventure or chance the transaction is—the shipping merchant, on the other hand, undertaking to account to the adventurer for the produce; Bill of complaint, the name given in the English Court of Chancery, prior to the Judicature Act of 1873, to the formal statement of the facts and prayer for relief submitted by a plaintiff to the court; Bill of costs, an account stating in detail the charges and disbursements of an attorney or solicitor in the conduct of his client's business; Bill of exceptions, a statement of objections, by way of appeal, against the decision of a judge who is trying a case with a jury in the Court of Session; Bill of exchange, a document purporting to be an instrument of pecuniary obligation for value received, and which is employed for the purpose of settling a debt in a manner convenient to the parties concerned; Bill of fare, in a hotel, the list of dishes or articles of food; Bill of health, an official certificate of the state of health on board ship before sailing; Bill of lading, a paper signed by the master of a ship, by which he makes himself responsible for the safe delivery of the goods specified therein; Bill of mortality, an official account of the births and deaths occurring in a certain district within a given time; Bill of sale, in English law, a formal deed assigning personal property, the usual mode of transferring ships, and valuable as mercantile securities over stock-in-trade, furniture, &c.; Bill of sight, an entry of imported goods of which the merchant does not know the quantity or the quality; Bill of store, a license from the customs authorities to reimport British goods formerly exported; Bill of victualling, a list of necessary stores shipped from the bonded warehouse, or for drawback on board vessels proceeding on oversea voyages. [Through Low L. billa, from L. bulla, anything round, a knob, a seal appended to a charter, hence a document bearing a seal, &c. See Bull, an edict.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. bill

    A ship

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. bill

    A weapon or implement of war, a pike or halbert of the English infantry. It was formerly carried by sentinels, whence Shakspeare humorously made Dogberry tell the sleepy watchmen to have a care that their bills be not stolen. Also, the point or tapered extremity of the fluke at the arm of an anchor. Also a point of land, of which a familiar instance may be cited in the Bill of Portland.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. bill

    A weapon much used by infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries, for defense against cavalry, consisting of a broad, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the summit, and attached to the end of a long staff.

Rap Dictionary

  1. billnoun

    A banknote. We got to get you for that dollar bill -- Mack 10 & Scarface (You Delinquent)

Editors Contribution

  1. bill

    A specific and accurate form of proposed legislation.

    The bill is approved to create a form of banking taxation and it is vital to ensure a just and fair contribution to society.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BILL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bill is ranked #6474 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bill surname appeared 5,246 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Bill.

    74.9% or 3,934 total occurrences were White.
    8.1% or 426 total occurrences were Black.
    7% or 367 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    6.2% or 330 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 101 total occurrences were Asian.
    1.6% or 88 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BILL' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1157

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BILL' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1095

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'BILL' in Nouns Frequency: #367

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of BILL in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of BILL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of BILL in a Sentence

  1. Mark Sanford:

    Without the president having legislators' backs, there's no way they're going to take the risks that would be inherent in a major reform bill.

  2. Mitch McConnell:

    Inexplicably, this urgent and uncontroversial bill has been sitting on Speaker Pelosi's desk ever since, the same The House Democrats whose irresponsible rhetoric has contributed to this dangerous climate are themselves blocking added security for the judges and their spouses and their children.

  3. Tony Montalto:

    This bill is a victim’s rights bill. We want to believe in our justice system. Our justice system can’t be halted by one individual. We need consensus, collaboration, deliberation to take place, and that was halted by one individual in our case.

  4. David Webb:

    If you press ahead and bulldoze the bill through LegCo, then you will probably get the legislation passed, but at huge political cost and damage to the international credibility of HK for due process when reforming its legislation.

  5. Kristi Noem:

    Today was the first time the legislature refused to give a hearing to a bill and they chose to do it on a pro-life issue, protecting babies.

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  • حساب, منقار, فاتورةArabic
  • дзюбаBelarusian
  • фактура, афиш, човка, сметка, клюн, законопроект, програма, лапа, афиширам, разгласявам, секач, градинска ножица, алебарда, представям сметкаBulgarian
  • bec, facturaCatalan, Valencian
  • zobák, účet, směnkaCzech
  • næbDanish
  • Schnabel, Gesetzesentwurf, Landzunge, RechnungGerman
  • συναλλαγματική, διαφήμιση, τιμολόγιο, κατηγορητήριο, ράμφος, λογαριασμός, εγκλητήριο, νομοσχέδιο, αφίσα, εκδίδω τιμολόγιο, χαϊδολογιέμαι, εκδίδω λογαριασμό, αποστέλλω λογαριασμόGreek
  • beko, kalkuloEsperanto
  • cartel, proyecto de ley, nota, pico, declaración, letra, factura, proposición de ley, cuentaSpanish
  • صورتحسابPersian
  • vekseli, lasku, lakiehdotus, nokka, luettelo, julistus, juliste, kanne, kynsi, hilpari, vesuri, hakata, kuhertaa, laskuttaaFinnish
  • nevFaroese
  • promontoire, acte, facture, addition, greffe, tract, projet de loi, bec, note, serpe, hallebardier, piocher, serpette, hallebardeFrench
  • snaffelWestern Frisian
  • gobIrish
  • bileScottish Gaelic
  • מקור, תכניה, כרזהHebrew
  • चोंचHindi
  • csőr, váltóHungarian
  • կտուցArmenian
  • nef, frumvarp, nóta, goggur, reikningurIcelandic
  • becco, poster, conto, cambiale, nota, fatturaItalian
  • שטר כסףHebrew
  • 嘴, 勘定, 請求書Japanese
  • ნისკარტიGeorgian
  • 계산서Korean
  • snapasLithuanian
  • likumprojektsLatvian
  • сметка, клун, нацрт-закон, меница, законски проектMacedonian
  • चोचMarathi
  • bek, snavel, rekenen, in rekening brengen, factureren, BillDutch
  • nebbNorwegian
  • rachunek, dziób, faktura, halabardaPolish
  • conta, bico, declaração, fatura, [[projeto]] [[de]] [[lei]]Portuguese
  • plisc, notă, afiș, factură, inventar, bilet de bancă, proiect de lege, notă de plată, plângere, placardă, act, cioc, poster, cosor, halebardier, halebardă, anunțaRomanian
  • билль, расписка, клюв, счёт, програмка, афиша, заявление, законопроект, вексель, алебардаRussian
  • kljun, кљунSerbo-Croatian
  • zobákSlovak
  • kljunSlovene
  • sqep, çukëAlbanian
  • växel, faktura, motion, program, affisch, intyg, näbb, förteckning, räkning, lista, nota, proposition, sedel, anslag, lagförslag, hillebardiär, hillebard, hacka, kyssas, affischera, faskinkniv, näbbas, debiteraSwedish
  • mswada, mwsadaSwahili
  • gagaTurkish
  • дзьобUkrainian
  • bödahoned, länalineg, honedVolapük
  • 法案Chinese

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